Authentic Italian Sauce

Name: Authentic Italian Sauce
Total time: 1200 s
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 oz plum tomatos; 12 oz crushed tomatos; 6 oz tomato paste; 1 packages sweet italian sausage; 1 lb pork or beef; 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin; 1/3 cup garlic cloves; 1 medium chopped onion; 6 basil; 2 bay leaf; 1 tsp sugar; 1/4 cup white wine; salt; 1 tbsp black pepper

John Talamelli @cook_3459110

I grew up in an Italian American home. As a tradition every Sunday my grandmother would cook a Sunday lunch for our family and friends. If you know anything about Italian family gatherings, it was a mad house but i wouldn't have traded it for anything. She has since passed. To continue this tradition I started to cook her sauce for my family. So please enjoy!

John Talamelli @cook_3459110

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Ingredients

20 mins

12 ozplum tomatos
12 ozcrushed tomatos
6 oztomato paste
1 packagessweet italian sausage
1 lbpork or beef
2 tbspolive oil, extra virgin
1/3 cupgarlic cloves
1 mediumchopped onion
6basil
2bay leaf
1 tspsugar
1/4 cupwhite wine
salt
1 tbspblack pepper

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Steps

20 mins

1

In a deep sauce pan add your oil. Then brown your meat.
2

As meat is Browning cut onion and peel your garlic. After meat is browned on all sides add onion and garlic. Scrape all the brown stuff on the bottom of the pan. (That's all flavor)
3

Add salt and pepper to meat and veggies. Once onion and garlic are sauted add your cans of tomatoes (not paste). Crush the plum tomato with your fingers into the sauce. Stir , on med. heat let sauce cook for 20 min. Untill sauce is at a rolling boil.
4

Then add basil, bayleaf, wine and paste. Let cook on med heat for 10-15 more minutes.
5

Lower heat to a simmer and add suger to reduce acidity. Let cook for 3-5 hours to reduce to desired thickness stirring often. Scrape the sides and mixing it back into the sauce.

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John Talamelli @cook_3459110

on January 25, 2015 20:21

I'm half Italian half Vietnamese. I came to United States at 9 months old from Vietnam. I was raised by an Italian family with Italian traditions. I lived with my grandmother. Her passion and job was cooking for the family. Her food was amazing a combination of American and Italian. She has passed on but a few of us family members try to keep her cooking traditions alive. She always used to say if you like to eat good you have to learn to cook good.